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A boxed Collector’s Edition of indie hit The Banner Saga will be coming to UK retail on July 25th. Sold Out Sales and Marketing Limited will offer the Viking-themed tactical role-playing game as a physical release for the first time. A spin-off of the retail sales team at Mastertronic, Sold …
Read More »GAME hosts Destiny early access tour
UK GAME stores will give those awaiting Destiny the chance to play Bungie’s online multiplayer shooter early. 27 GAME stores will host Destiny lock-ins from today (July 17th) until July 24th, letting players try out the PS4 edition of the title. Each lock-in store will stay open for two additional …
Read More »GameStop: Majority of our digital revenue made at brick-and-mortar stores
Retailer GameStop has brought in significant digital revenue direct from its brick-and-mortar shops, company president Tony Bartel claims. In an interview with Games Beat, Bartel dismissed the notion that digital purchases are made exclusively from the hardware owner’s couch. "Most of our digital revenue comes from our brick-and-mortar stores," he …
Read More »Over 70% of Ubisoft’s Season Passes are sold at retail
GameStop has claimed that over 70 per cent of the Season passes Ubisoft sells for its games are sold on the High Street. Furthermore, 14 per cent of those who have bought Watch Dogs have also paid for a Season Pass whereas the attach rate amongst GameStop customers is 30 …
Read More »Sold Out warns indies not to ignore traditional market
Publishing label Sold Out has told indies they shouldn’t ignore the opportunities that remain available in the traditional boxed market. Further to a recent deal struck with Worms developer Team 17, Sold Out is now on the hunt for new indie development partners that it argues are missing on substantial …
Read More »FTC sues Amazon over in-app payments
The US government is taking Amazon to court over its refusal to abide by FTC suggestions regarding in-app payment policy. Reuters reports that the lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission looks to force Amazon to refund IAPs that are ruled to have been purchased without the permission of parents. …
Read More »Alien: Isolation’s DLC will be made available to all eventually
The recently announced original Alien film DLC for Sega’s Alien: Isolation will be available to all owners of the game at some point in the future. It was announced on Wednesday that all existing and future pre-orders for the game will be upgraded to the Nostromo Edition. The catch is …
Read More »Games retail fights back
Back in 2007 – at the start of the last console generation – there were over 1,000 video game specialists on the High Street. 1,070 to be precise. Today, there are 605. It’s even worse if you look at the number of music and movie specialists that sold video games. …
Read More »GameStop wants in on development to improve pre-order exclusives
Retailer GameStop wans to increase the amount of exclusive content it can offer customers who use it to pre-order games. VentureBeat reports that to do this it has embarked on a strategy of buddying up with publishers and developers – ideally early on in the development process. GamesStop indicated that …
Read More »GameStop plots UK loyalty programme
Global retail giant GameStop told MCV this week that its UK website has seen ‘triple digit’ growth over the last few years. And now the firm wants to launch a loyalty scheme in Britain, but still has no plans to open any High Street stores. The firm’s international boss Mike …
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